the heart of darkness
Recommended by Mr. Liu Yunfei when he went to Heart of Darkness. The same name as Kurtz, the background of the Vietnam War and the virgin forests of Africa, the end of the horror. Understanding of the captain.
1. Ultimate end and belief
The first is about meaning and belief. what is the meaning, what is your belief. The French fought for glory and family. And the Viet Cong was founded by the United States, the meaning of their war is nothing, the lost solider, from the crusade to the modern, everything seems pale.
Of course this is a deconstruction for Captain. The captain is the quietest and most capable person in the team. In the end Kurtz's Eastern philosophy did not brainwash him either. The captain also had agents who performed missions before, but they were all brainwashed.
Therefore, the first meaning of the final horror should point to the thinking of the ultimate end. It is undecided. Although the task is completed, there is still some kind of nothingness.
2. Hero's Journey and Captain
From the perspective of mythology and hero's journey, the story of the captain's mission is very similar to Journey to the West.
The beautiful woman the captain met in the French manor, the captain said I don't drink, I dont drink wine, has a full symbol. Just like the Gao Lao Zhuang section of Journey to the West.
So from this perspective, the horror should point to the difficulty of the journey itself
3. Orientalism and Others
This is a question of how to understand the other, different civilizations in the era of globalization. While searching a small boat, a group of Vietnamese farmers were directly killed by the US military.
The U.S. military has sex with Miss December in the helicopter, the U.S. military doesn't care about the little bird that Miss is thinking, and gives him a wig to confuse February and May. People don't understand each other, they just want to satisfy their own assumptions, or they all understand the world from their own perspective. In a modern, highly systematic society, people are increasingly connected with each other without understanding each other.
To not understand the other is to not understand the self. This horror points to loneliness, to fear of the other, to confusion about the construction of social Unity.
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